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ne plus ultra

[ nee pluhs uhl-truh, ney; Latin ne ploos ool-trah ]

noun

  1. the highest point; acme.
  2. the most intense degree of a quality or state.


ne plus ultra

/ ˈneɪ ˈplʊs ˈʊltrɑː /

noun

  1. the extreme or perfect point or state
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ne plus ultra1

1690–1700; < New Latin, Latin nē plūs ultrā (may you) not (go) further beyond (this point)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ne plus ultra1

literally: not more beyond (that is, go no further), allegedly a warning to sailors inscribed on the Pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar
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Example Sentences

That particular shop, sold to Bendel a decade ago or so before, had been the ne plus ultra of American bookstores.

Many of us occupy a world in which having your own hour on a cable channel is an all-consuming goal and the ne plus ultra.

Having a bride end the show suggested that the wedding gown was the ne plus ultra.

In the pantheon of self-destructive, shambolic, rock-star dandies, Johnny Thunders is the ne plus ultra.

Lamb fills his case, and lights this the ne plus ultra of a soothing weed.

On his return he again doubled cape Good Hope, which had long been regarded as the ne plus ultra of navigation.

This is but a bare outline of a most excellently developed story, in which realism has been carried to a ne plus ultra.

Villars vaingloriously styled his lines "Marlborough's ne plus ultra," a subject on which he was abundantly jocular.

He thinks the bar-mess the most fashionable assemblage in Europe, and the jokes of "grand day" the ne plus ultra of wit.

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